Open AccessI‐Corps at NIH: Entrepreneurial Training Program Creating Successful Small Businesses
Author(s) -
Canaria Christie A.,
Portilla Lili,
Weingarten Michael
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
clinical and translational science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1752-8062
pISSN - 1752-8054
DOI - 10.1111/cts.12637
Subject(s) - commercialization , timeline , interim , test (biology) , management , health technology , marketing , business , public relations , medical education , medicine , political science , health care , paleontology , archaeology , biology , economics , law , history
This Commentary highlights the 36month longitudinal study following the pilot cohort of the InnovationCorps (ICorpsTM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) program, which was launched in the fall 2014. Given the long timeline to commercialization for life science technologies, this interim evaluation provides an encouraging snapshot of ICorps participants’ progress. As these companies and their technologies mature, ICorps learnings are applied to downstream company research and product lines, indicating that this entrepreneurial translational training provides lasting value for researchers.